Some rich man getting richer while you slaving for him

from J. Cole – It Won't Be Long Lyrics on Rap Genius

Cole annunciates in no uncertain terms his left-wing social politics with a dig at the failures of capitalism. Almost a spin on the phrase ‘Work like a slave, to eat like a King’, Cole portrays how many, including his Mother, have worked like slaves, simply to eat like slaves too.

In the Cole World we live in, for one man to be rich, someone has to be poor…Cole challenges this and asks the listener…do you want to live in a world like this?

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